PSYC 230 Exam 3 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
Top-down processing is: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A process whereby our existing
knowledge of objects influences how we perceive them
The process by which multiple objects in the environment are grouped,
allowing us to identify multiple objects in complex scenes, is known as: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Perceptual Organization
Figure-Ground organization is: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The experience viewers
have as to which part of image is in front and which part of an image is in
the background of a particular scene
The perception of a physically absent but inferred edge, allowing us to
complete the perception of a partially hidden object, is known as: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Edge completion
, T/F Previous knowledge and experience with objects forever changes the
way we perceive and identify those objects in the future. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔True
Geons are: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The basic units of objects, consisting of
simple shapes such as cylinders and pyramids
Face agnosia, that is, a neurological injury resulting in a deficit in perceiving
faces, is known as: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prosopagnosia
Looser and Wheatley (2010) pointed out that all human minds have faces,
but not all faces have human minds. In their study: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔They
used electroencephalographic (EEG) technology to look at responses to
photographs of real faces and photographs of dolls and mannequins.
The storage and/or reconstruction of information in memory when that
information is not in use is known as - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Representation
The process by which multiple objects in the environment are grouped,
allowing us to identify multiple objects in complex scenes, is known as - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Perceptual organization
Questions and Correct Answers | New
Update
Top-down processing is: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A process whereby our existing
knowledge of objects influences how we perceive them
The process by which multiple objects in the environment are grouped,
allowing us to identify multiple objects in complex scenes, is known as: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Perceptual Organization
Figure-Ground organization is: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The experience viewers
have as to which part of image is in front and which part of an image is in
the background of a particular scene
The perception of a physically absent but inferred edge, allowing us to
complete the perception of a partially hidden object, is known as: - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Edge completion
, T/F Previous knowledge and experience with objects forever changes the
way we perceive and identify those objects in the future. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔True
Geons are: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The basic units of objects, consisting of
simple shapes such as cylinders and pyramids
Face agnosia, that is, a neurological injury resulting in a deficit in perceiving
faces, is known as: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Prosopagnosia
Looser and Wheatley (2010) pointed out that all human minds have faces,
but not all faces have human minds. In their study: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔They
used electroencephalographic (EEG) technology to look at responses to
photographs of real faces and photographs of dolls and mannequins.
The storage and/or reconstruction of information in memory when that
information is not in use is known as - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Representation
The process by which multiple objects in the environment are grouped,
allowing us to identify multiple objects in complex scenes, is known as - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Perceptual organization
